Trump Rips Major Government Contractors -- Who’s Next?
Trump Takes Aim at Lockheed Martin’s F-35 Jet in Tweet
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Where President-elect Donald Trump may focus his social-media attacks next is fast becoming a parlor game in Washington and on Wall Street, after he tweeted criticisms of the high cost of some government contracts won by Lockheed Martin Corp. and Boeing Co.
A Bloomberg Government review found that the F-35 program, jointly developed by Lockheed and United Technologies Corp., is the single most expensive active Pentagon military contract, with almost $379 billion in current or planned spending over its lifetime.